Ed Rendell

In the issue of dead-tree TIME that hits the newsstands tomorrow, I’ve written this story on Hillary Clinton’s biggest backer–and most formidable weapon– in Pennsylvania.

It includes this criticism of how the media is doing its job:

In a recent appearance on Fox News—not exactly considered friendly territory for the Democrats—he congratulated the network for having done “the fairest job [and] remained the most objective of all the cable networks.” In an interview with me, the governor was again in media-critic mode. “It took Saturday Night Live to bring some fairness to this election,” Rendell said, referring to the show’s now famous skit lampooning the media’s crush on Obama. “It’s stunning. Does Keith Olbermann get checks from the Obama campaign?”